Information on Vesta Isabell Dixon

I did a post on this on the first of this month on Facebook. I have more information now. My mother was named after Vesta Isabell Dixon who was her full cousin. Previously I had thought she died in 1906. I found out today that she actually died in 1902. I found an old newspaper article at the link below. They did spell her name as Vista instead of Vesta. That's probably why I didn't find it sooner. I got a clue that she died before 1906 so I just searched the Coalville Times backward for days just after January 26 and hit what I could call pay dirt. The Park Record reprinted it 30 years later. Here is what the article said. 

Vista Isabel Dixon the three-year-old daughter of Mrs. Richard Dixon, died at Scofield last Sunday from an attack of the croup. The remains were brought to Coalville Wednesday and buried in the city cemetery. Funeral services were held in the Spring Hollow meeting house yesterday at 1 o’clock.

Coalville Times, January 31, 1902.

Park Record, May 6, 1932.

The link: http://udn.lib.utah.edu/…/coalvil…/id/58939/show/58937/rec/1
 
So it looks like her birthdate is 30 August 1898 and her death date is 26 January 1902. She was only three years old instead of eight years old. I just love this searchable old newspaper website.  This means that this child, Vesta, died before her mother remarried. 

Vesta Isabell and Richard Samuel Dixon. Sister and brother.

Vesta Isabella Pettersson named for Vesta Isabell Dixon.

I have been doing some family history research and searching for names to submit to the temple for ordinances.  I ran across a Vesta Isabell Dixon.  This is very interesting because my mother's name is Vesta Isabella Pettersson Curtis.  Vesta Dixon was born in August of 1898.  I don't have the exact day.  She died in 1906.  I don't have the exact date there either.  Normally the LDS Church does not require ordinances for an 8 year old.  Since specific dates are not there Vesta Isabell is elligible for the ordinances.  I am under the assumption that my mother was named after her full cousin Vesta Isabell Dixon.  Daughter of Richard Dixon and Miriam Livsey.  Miriam also died in 1906.

Vesta Isabell had a brother named Richard Samuel Dixon.  Their father was killed in the Scofield Mine Disaster on May 1, 1900.  Richard was not born until December 27, 1900 in Scofield.  Their mother Miriam remarried on April 8, 1903.  Miriam died in September 1906.  Apparently after the death of Miriam, Richard Samuel went to live with his grandparents Thomas Livsey and Isabella Pilkington Livsey.  He is listed with them on the 1910 census.  Thomas Livsey died in 1912.  I would assume that when he died Isabella Pilkington Livsey and Richard Samuel Dixon went to live with the Nicholas Peter Pettersson family.  They are listed with that family on the 1920 census.  Richard married March 22, 1920 in Salt Lake City to Vivian Davis.  They both lived in Winter Quarters, Utah when they were married.   

My mother always told me about Richard Dixon that lived with them but I don't her remember telling me that he was her full cousin.  I do not remember her telling me that he had a sister named Vesta Isabell or that she was named after her.  I am a bit overwhelmed by this discovery.